(Robert W. Sarnoff)
If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The influence of fine scenery, the presence of mountains, appeases our irritations and elevates our friendships.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)
However useful may be the National Parks and Forests of the West for those affording the Pullman fare to reach them, what is needed by the bulk of the American population is something nearer home.
(Benton Mackaye)
Let us bequeath our children more than the gadgets that surround us. If bicycling can be restored to the daily life of all Americans, it can be a vital step toward rebuilding health and vigor in all of us.
(Dr. Paul Dudley White)
What a joy it is to feel the soft, springy earth under my feet once more, to follow grassy roads that lead to ferny brooks where I can bathe my fingers in a cataract of rippling notes, or to clamber over a stone wall into green fields that tumble and roll and climb in riotous gladness!
(Helen Keller)
Our suicidal poets (Plath, Berryman, Lowell, Jarrell, et al. ) spent too much of their lives inside rooms and classrooms when they should have been trudging up mountains, slogging through swamps, rowing down rivers. The indoor life is the next best thing to premature burial.
(Edward Abbey)
I have a basic belief that outdoor recreation in a natural environment is good for people and is good for society at large. Anything that will bring more people to outdoor recreation, I therefore consider a 'friend. ' Problems that derive from this philosophy are what keep me and others like me in business as recreation managers.
(Richard Spray)